Gotham Security Daily Threat Alerts

September 17, Securityweek – (International) Twitter fixes vulnerability potentially impacting company’s ad revenue. A security researcher identified and reported a vulnerability in a Twitter subdomain that could be used to delete the payment card information used by advertisers to pay for ads on the social media network. Twitter addressed the vulnerability and awarded a $2,800 bounty to the researcher. Source: http://www.securityweek.com/twitter-fixes-vulnerability-potentially-impacting-companys-ad-revenue

September 17, Help Net Security – (International) Macro based malware is on the rise. Researchers with Sophos found that macro-based malware created in Visual Basic rose from around 6 percent of document malware to 28 percent in July, among other findings. Source: http://www.net-security.org/malware_news.php?id=2867

September 16, Threatpost – (International) Adobe gets delayed Reader update out the door. Adobe released new versions of Adobe Reader and Acrobat September 16 that were delayed during Adobe’s scheduled patch release the week of September 8. The updates close eight vulnerabilities including two memory corruption issues and a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting Macintosh users. Source: http://threatpost.com/adobe-gets-delayed-reader-update-out-the-door